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- Location
- Over the Hill
Ah huh a huhIt is preserved and is a model of horrible '70s plastic kitch inside!
.... The plane I mean, not Elvis.
Ah huh a huhIt is preserved and is a model of horrible '70s plastic kitch inside!
.... The plane I mean, not Elvis.
Oooooh - I've been there on my bike
So extra points for meOooooh - I think I've been there on my bike![]()
Only think you've been!Oooooh - I think I've been there on my bike![]()
No - I checked and I now know I've been.Only think you've been!
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Year 986 (CMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
By placeEdit
AmericaEdit
AsiaEdit
- Explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson becomes the first inhabitant of the Old World to sight North America.
EuropeEdit
- Emperor Ichijō succeeds Emperor Kazan on the throne of Japan.
- March–July – The Song Dynasty sends armies on three fronts against the Liao Dynasty in the Sixteen Prefectures, but are defeated on all fronts.(Chi go Pass Compaign)
- One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Chinese encyclopedia Finest Blossoms in the Garden of Literature is finished in this year, with a total of 1,000 volumes representing the work of some 2,200 authors.
- March 2 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
- August 17 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan – The Bulgarians defeat the Byzantine Empire forces at the Gate of Trajan near modern-day Ihtiman, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping.
- The de facto ruler of al-Andalus, al-Mansur, continues his effort in the north of the Iberian peninsula, he takes and sacks Coimbra (following which the city is said to have remained deserted for six years).
- Sweyn Forkbeard becomes King of Denmark.
- Håkon Sigurdsson of Norway defeats the Danish invasion force at the Battle of Hjörungavágr.
BirthsEdit
- Athelstan Aetheling, son of Ethelred the Unready, (d. 1011)
DeathsEdit
- March 2 – Lothair, King of the Franks
- May 25 – 'Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Muslim astronomer
- November 1 – Harold I of Denmark
- Cadwallon ab Ieuaf, King of Gwynedd
- Yang Ye, Chinese general of Song Dynasty
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